"This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky."

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Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.7, Princeton University Press

Elaine Scarry

#Teacher Quotes #Order Quotes #Sky Quotes

“One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.”
“How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I cannot teach a child I do not know”
“I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.”
“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
“The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.”
“I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.”
“Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.”

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